I now realize that this is a duplicate, previous searches had not shown this issue.
I also experience this in most of my worlds, old and new. I notice this often happens while sprinting.
[media]I'm also having this issue on Mobile ever since the new year gifts event was removed from the marketplace
[media], skin creator skins just appear as Steve even though it has been edited.
Its the skin creator itself not classic skins, it has no issues with using classic skins for me at least.
My render distance was set to 32 yesterday now at max
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